skin and bone
Nothing but skeleton
Skin and bone describes extreme thinness—a body so emaciated that only skin covering the skeleton remains visible, with no flesh in between.
Usually appears with nothing but or all: After months of illness, she was nothing but skin and bone.
The phrase emphasizes alarming or unhealthy weight loss rather than ordinary slenderness.
Also skin and bones.
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- gauntLean from deprivation
- scrawnyUnattractively thin and bony
- underweightBelow normal mass
- skeletalOf or like bones
frail · lean · malnourished · anorexia · cachexia · wasting · wasting away · fading away · starvation · starving artist · haggard · thin · malnutrition · angular · concentration camp · atrophied · deficiency · stick figure